Listeria monocytogenes virulence factor secretion: don’t leave the cell without a chaperone

In Gram-positive bacteria, the secretion of proteins requires translocation of polypeptides across the bacterial membrane into the highly charged environment of the membrane-cell wall interface. Here, proteins must be folded and often further delivered across the matrix of the cell wall. While man...

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Main Authors: Laty Adriella Cahoon, Nancy E. Freitag
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fcimb.2014.00013/full